Elizabeth Tate

Elizabeth Tate is a fictional character in the 1999 film The Other Sister, portrayed by Diane Keaton. A loving but overprotective mother, Elizabeth tries to control her mentally challenged daughter, Carla (Juliette Lewis) by preventing her from reaching her potential in life. She pressures Carla to conform to the same suburban homemaker lifestyle she lives. Elizabeth also smothers her other daughter, a lesbian, by trying to prevent her from marrying her partner. She also has a normal straight daughter who is engaged and later married, thus setting the stage for the two other sisters to take advantage of marrying their respective partners to leave her tyrannical ways for good. Elizabeth's household is not religious as they do not attend...